The item applies only to those folks that have “shell” access and/or personal websites hosted on exmsft.com. Those with other accounts can move along … nothing to see here. (And in case you’re wondering, this is provided as a legacy service to folks who had it since “the old days”. With few exceptions we’re not setting […]
Why am I being asked to verify this (possibly former) Microsoft employee?
June 29, 2012 by
exmsft.com provides email services for ex-Microsoft employees. If someone requests an account but is unable to send from their @microsoft.com email address we ask that they provide one or more references from existing Microsoft employees. If you’ve received such a confirmation request from the exmsft.com administrator (currently Leo Notenboom), that’s all that’s going on. We […]
Server Configuration
March 21, 2012 by
For some reason the demographics of exmsft.com tend towards the geeky – people entertained by things like server configurations and the like. Fine. As of February 8, 2025 exmsft.com runs on a VPS out at Contabo hosting. The server is “dedicated”, in that it’s 100% dedicated to exmsft.com. Since it’s virtual we actually have no […]
Signing up for an exmsft.com email address
March 21, 2012 by
Signing Up IMPORTANT: for a variety of reasons (expanded on here), we are no longer providing forwarding services. Instead, we can provide IMAP/POP3 accounts. Configuration information is here. What you’re asking for To be clear, what you will be requesting is a new email address of the form: alias<at>exmsft.com where “alias” is your old Microsoft email […]
The exmsft.com meltdown of 2012
March 16, 2012 by
If you’re wondering if exmsft.com had been having problems, you’re quite correct – it was. Emphasis on “was”. In the first half of March 2012 the original exmsft.com had a major and terminal meltdown. This is the completely new exmsft.com server, and at the same time a new volunteer owner: Leo Notenboom. As a result […]
exmsft.com Terms and Policies
March 12, 2012 by
Terms of service Updated: 2023-07-27. exmsft.com is a free service to ex-Microsoft employees. As such there’s no guarantee of uptime, support, and so on. That’s not to say we don’t make our best efforts, we absolutely do – but we just can’t guarantee anything. 🙂 In the spirit of full disclosure, I’d recommend you have […]